The former Yeezy employee who recently filed a lawsuit against Kanye West still has his daughter in the Donda choir, according to a new report by @pagesix. As we previously reported Trevor Phillips claimed that the rapper wanted to establish a jail at his school to confine students, threatened physical violence against him, and displayed discriminatory behavior toward Black employees.
The news outlets spoke with multiple sources who revealed that Makayla Myles-Phillips is still a part of the Donda choir and her father has made “no attempts” to pull his daughter out, despite filing this shocking lawsuit. Sources shared that the young girl has been in the choir since January and has been thriving as a great singer.
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“She’s an elite singer. She just did a performance and she actually had a solo,” a source, who has worked with the choir, explained to Page Six exclusively of Makayla. “Her mom never heard her sing by herself before her solo. The program just boosted her confidence.” Another source also added, “She is an amazing singer and rarely misses a rehearsal.” The staffer who worked with the Donda Academy choir also stated that she believes Trevor’s allegations about Ye is outrageous. “It bothers me, honestly, because Ye is a generous guy,” the source said. “One thing that everyone knows is that the kids, the school, and everything in regards to Donda is [West’s] life, his source of light.”
Other accusations laid out in the filing are that Ye once simulated masturbation during a one-on-one hotel room meeting, threatened to punch Phillips during a “temper tantrum”, and verbally abused his staff. The latter, Phillips elaborated, claimed that West treated his Black staff “considerably worse than white employees”, and told various members of staff that they could be fired for being “fat”.
Elsewhere in the suit, he also stated that Ye temporarily delayed paying workers after his Yeezy bank accounts were frozen.
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Representatives for Ye and attorneys for Donda Academy have not yet publicly responded to requests for comment.
Phillips was hired in November 2022 to work on the “vertically integrated crew” for Yeezy, but was later transferred to Donda Academy after Adidas cut ties with the rapper.
He has become the latest former employee to take legal action against Ye, and claims that even after losing his working partnership with Adidas, the musician continued to “double down” on his anti-Semitic comments.
He claims that he pushed back against the rapper’s anti-Semitism and threats to go after the LGBTQ+ community “next”, to which West allegedly responded with “incessant harassment, humiliation, and attempts to both mentally control and destroy” him.
West fired Phillips during a tirade over a garden for which he was responsible and, in the lawsuit, the former employee claims he pleaded with the musician to retain his job as he had a medical condition and that his daughter and little brother both attended Donda.